This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 1/21/22

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In this Week in Edtech, we cover:

1) Lawsuit Alleging Price-Fixing at Top Universities
- NY Times

2) Phil Hill's Coverage of the Shrinking Non-Profit University Ecosystem
- Phil on Edtech

3) India cracks down on OPM providers in Higher Ed
- Times of India
- Economic Times

4) LEAD Becomes the First Indian Edtech Unicorn of 2022 with a $100m round
- The News Minute
- Techcrunch

5) Around the World
- US: GSV Elite 200 Edtech companies Released
- UK: MyTutor acquires coding platform Fire Tech
- Africa: Egyptian Edtech Orcas Raises Round,  $10M Future of Learning fund from Future Africa
- LATAM: Ubits raises $25m to create the Netflix of corporate training

6) Education Labor Force
- 74Million: Report shows that there is no 'big quit' in education, but specialized positions are still hard to fill

We also play a game of 'fill in the blank' with questions like "University Presidents should feel _________ given the barrage of negative recent headlines about legacy Higher Ed" and take questions live from the On Deck Ed Tech fellowship.